The Harvester  |
| Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 - 1924) |
Publishers Weekly #1 Best Seller for 1912.
A young man leads a solitary life growing and harvesting medicinal herbs. He dreams of meeting his true love, subsequently sees her in a vision, and finally sets out to find her...
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| The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories |
| John Kessel (1950 - ) http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/index2.html |
"Kessel proves himself again a master not just of science fiction, but also of the modern short story, crafting compelling characters and following them through plots that never fail to please - or to defy prediction."
--Metro Magazine
"Kessel's blend of dark humor and reality-stretching scenarios is consistently mesmerizing."
--Booklist
"One of the best collections of the year."
--Locus
"These well-crafted stories, full of elegantly drawn characters, deliver a powerful emotional punch."
--Publishers Weekly
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| Roo'd http://www.wireless.is/rood/ |
| Joshua Klein ( - ) http://www.wireless.is/ |
A novel about the future that's closer than we think.
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| Six Gun Action |
| Lewis Shiner ( - ) http://www.lewisshiner.com |
Lewis Shiner is a two-time finalist for the Nebula (Frontera, Deserted Cities of the Heart), a finalist for the Philip K. Dick (Frontera), and won the World Fantasy award for Glimpses.
This collection veers into the weird side of the Old West, with punks, communists, crooked sodbusters, and a touch of slide guitar.
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| Beautiful Joe |
| Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861 - 1947) |
1894 Best Seller.
A fictionalised 'autobiography' of the true story of a dog named 'Beautiful Joe'.
Joe's abusive original owner savagely mistreated him.
The book became very popular and greatly contributed to the worldwide awareness of animal cruelty.
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| The Man-eaters of Tsavo |
| John Henry Patterson (1867 - 1947) |
The books tells the true story of attacks by man-eating lions on the Uganda railway in Tsavo Kenya in 1898.
Over one hundred people were killed in under a year. The attacks stopped only after the all the lions had been tracked down and killed by Patterson.
In the 1996 film The Ghost and the Darkness Val Kilmer played Patterson.
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| Dogland http://qwertyranch.blogspot.com/2007/07/dogland.html |
| Will Shetterly ( - ) http://qwertyranch.blogspot.com/ |
Will Shetterly is a Minnesota gubernatorial candidate and author of many novels
The floridian magical realism of Dogland follows the Nix family as they move across the country to create DOGLAND and the US moves into the turbulent sixties
Though the novels setting in a tourist attraction featuring hundreds of dog breeds might seem pure whimsy, it is apparently autobiographical.
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